DESIGN AND INNOVATION IN WESTERN'S INTEGRATED ENGINEERING PROGRAM

Design and Psychometric Assessment of the Program of development and Innovation in Medical Education

Introduction: Evaluation of the Program of development and Innovation in Medical Education in Iran needs tools that can determine the successes and shortcomings of this program. The purpose of this study was to design and psychometrically evaluate the tools for measuring the evolution of innovation in medical education.    Methods: This study was designed and conducted in two stages during the...

Enabling innovation through integrated systems engineering

Organisational memory and innovation across projects: integrated service provision in engineering design firms

This paper provides an exploration of the dynamics of organisational remembering in firms operating through projects. The paper focuses in particular on the deliberate use of experience accumulated in the past in order to sustain innovation in the provision of services. It relies on the notions of boundary objects and brokers to empirically explore how a common memory crossing occupational and ...

A Framework for Integrated design and innovation

Quality and price was a major discriminator in the 1980’s. Now Time to market dictates. Global Competitiveness in manufacturing is characterized by an increasing rate of change of product specification. Complex and dynamic value chains and product and service delivery mechanisms match it. This paper presents a framework, which combines different lifecycles in a hierarchical structure to support...

Disciplines of innovation in engineering design

Innovation happens deliberately more often than it does by inspiration. This paper describes disciplines applied by effective multi-disciplinary engineering firms in nurturing innovation in order to produce intellectual property in a variety of domains, from telecommunications to medical instruments. The report arises from a series of in situ observations and interviews in 12 engineering consul...